The Sisters of Life are moving in on October 16th to St Malachy in North Philadelphia to start serving women and babies in crisis! I am happy to report we will be keeping the project open so we can continue to help the Sisters..The Sisters of Life have been reaching out with practical assistance and spiritual and emotional support to pregnant women in areas where women have little resources.
The Visitation Mission is a mission of love, in person and by phone, to vulnerable, pregnant women. By providing the emotional and practical resources a woman needs, we hope to allow her the opportunity to respond with courage and dignity to one of life’s most difficult moments. The Sisters of Life take a vow of poverty and rely on donations...The project is just that! I will be collecting items to stock their shelves! I am posting items needed …..Please share this post with your friends.
Here is a list of items I will continue to collect...if you have the means to be a drop off location that would great..I will make weekly pick up trips.
Here is a list of items, in addition to diapers and wipes, that they will need for the Philly Mission:
cribs,
Strollers,
Baby carriers (strap on)
Baby clothes (oneness with big hoods and booties which are baby shoes)
Maternity clothes of all sizes are a must
baby blankets, receiving blankets
burp clothes
baby towels
pacifiers
book: what to expect when you are expecting
journals
For more information, please email dnswsnch@comcast.net
Praise God!!! The Sisters of Life were an order first conceived of by Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor of New York, on a visit to the remains of a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. There he placed his hands inside a crematoria oven, “felt the intermingled ashes of Jew and Christian, rabbi, priest and minister,” and is recorded as proclaiming, “Good God, how could human beings do this to other human beings?” Several years later, he decided to begin a new religious community in the Church, one dedicated to the promotion of pro-life causes, specifically working for an end to abortion and euthanasia. He proclaimed his intentions in an article entitled “Help Wanted: Sisters of Life” written for the newspaper Catholic New York, in which he asked for women of higher education to especially consider joining. Many women responded to the article, and on Foundation Day, June 1, 1991, eight women joined the order. For thirteen years they remained a public association of the lay faithful—a non-religious Catholic community—until March 25, 2004, when they were formally established as a religious institute of diocesan right by Edward Michael Egan, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of New York. The first Superior General of the order was Mother Agnes Mary Donovan.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rita for this information on the beginnings of The Sisters of Life!
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